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Greek vote clears way for bailout tranche

Greek MPs Monday narrowly passed financial reform measures demanded by lenders before the release of a €10bn tranche of its bailout. The step comes before a European finance ministers' meeting in Athens this week. Greek PM Samaras called it “a huge step toward the Greece of tomorrow, for young Greeks".

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.